BASE & Skydiving Canopy Handling

5-Day Intensive Skills Course
This is a paragliding-based canopy course. No prior airsports experience is required.

The program is designed for people interested in BASE jumping and/or skydiving. We teach complete novices alongside experienced jumpers, including BASE athletes with decades in the sport. Regardless of your background, you will leave with practical, usable skills that immediately improve how you understand and fly a canopy.

Why This Course Exists

Most BASE jumpers and skydivers spend years jumping, yet accumulate only a few hours of deliberate canopy training. Emergency procedures are often learned through photos, diagrams, and video—but real emergencies don’t happen on a screen.

What if you could train those emergencies in a controlled, non-risk environment?

In this course, you work hands-on with an actual canopy, risers, and brake lines— safely on the ground. You build familiarity with how your system responds to input, learning how pressure, movement, and timing translate into canopy behavior. This allows you to develop muscle memory and understanding without the consequences of making a mistake at altitude.

When something goes wrong after opening, there is rarely time to think. The environment is fast, high-adrenaline, and often violent. Decisions must be made immediately, under stress, with limited margin for error.

This course is designed to prepare you for when things don’t go perfectly. It builds deep familiarity with the parachute system so that when you are facing line twists or being flown backward toward a cliff, your response is intuitive rather than reactive. You know which risers to use, how to stay calm, and how to apply the correct inputs to safely resolve the malfunction.

By removing the life-or-death pressure, you gain the opportunity to learn properly—to make mistakes, correct them, and repeat the process until the correct response becomes automatic. The goal is not just knowledge, but trained, reliable muscle memory.

Over five focused days, you’ll log 20–30 hours of structured, hands-on canopy practice, building the judgment, control, and confidence required to manage your canopy from opening through landing—under both normal and off-nominal conditions.

This is not theory-heavy classroom instruction. The emphasis throughout the course is early inputs, correct inputs, and calm control.
This is canopy flying treated as a core skill, trained deliberately and progressively.